Library: Apraxia Research

Evidence-Based Practices: Guide for Parents Stephanie M. Nixon, Ph.D., CCC/SLP What is evidence-based practice? You may have heard speech/language pathologists using this word when describing why they are using a specific treatment approach with your child. What it means is that a speech/language pathologist is making decisions about your child’s care based on scientific […]

Children with apraxia of speech (CAS) often display slow progress during speech treatment, which includes difficulty acquiring, retaining and generalizing new skills. In August 2012, CASANA awarded a competitive research grant to Dr. Maria Grigos and Ms. Julie Case of the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. Funds from this grant […]

BACKGROUND Children diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) struggle to communicate basic needs to even those closest to them. In addition to severely unintelligible speech, CAS is often accompanied by language and literacy deficits, academic difficulties, deficits in phonological processing and literacy, and social disadvantages (ASHA, 2007; Lewis, Freebairn, Hansen, Stein, Shriberg, Iyengar, et […]

Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Presented at the Annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, November, 2013 Introduction and Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore parent and clinician reported perspectives and experiences six months after the introduction of iPads and relevant applications. This study was part of a larger investigation associated with […]

An effort to aid and support researchers in Childhood Apraxia of Speech by providing information about children with CAS.

What is the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Research Registry? The Registry is a list of as many individuals with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) as possible, containing information about each child’s health and developmental history. Once data is collected and enough children are registered, this list eventually will enable authorized researchers to find possible subjects for research […]

This page includes a list of research projects that are recruiting children with apraxia and/or their families for various research projects.

CASANA has made it a policy to share information through its Apraxia-KIDSSM resources for legitimate research projects that are currently recruiting subjects. In order to be accepted, the projects must be related to apraxia or related research and must meet certain requirements established by CASANA’s Professional Advisory Board. The most important requirement is that all […]

The somewhat surprising results of this study indicated that despite the overall negative experience parents had with the system, a critical positive encounter with even one service provider was typically influential enough to have a significant, positive effect on parents’ adaptation process, resulting in healthy adjustment and parent empowerment.

By Colleen Miron, Ph.D.

Background For a long time, researchers endorsed a very negative view of how parents adapt (or more accurately, how they felt they did not adapt) to having a child with a disability. This model was to a large extent influenced by the negative social-cultural beliefs toward individuals with disabilities that persisted through the 1970s. Examples […]

This report is a comprehensive description and review of the current science and state of practice regarding childhood apraxia of speech. It concludes with recommendations from the ASHA Ad-hoc committee on CAS. This file is posted here with permission. CAS_TECHNICAL_REPORT